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This Weekend!

Book Launch and Reception

Mary Henderson: Commons

Saturday, October 21, 5-7pm

Click here to reserve your signed edition of Mary Henderson, Commons. A limited number of artist books are now available for preorder, with pick up available on or after the book launch event on October 21, 2023.

This Fall, as the culmination of her CFEVA Visual Artist Fellowship, artist Mary Henderson has transformed CFEVA's gallery into a satellite studio! We invite you to come and take a peek at Mary’s remarkable paintings, and experience her creative process. In addition, Mary will feature her new project, Commons.

Commons features miniature paintings, scaled to the size of a hand, that are set in West Philadelphia’s iconic Clark Park, steps away from the artist's home. Inspired in part by the Parisian park and garden-party paintings of French Impressionist painting, the work imagines this public square as a kind of everyday utopia.

Exhibition: September 21 - October 22, 2023

Gallery Hours Monday-Friday 12:00-6:00pm

Open studio hours with Mary Henderson:

Thursdays, 12:00-3:00 (and by appointment)

Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST) hours:

Saturday October 21 & Sunday October 22, 12-6pm

Closing reception and book launch party: Saturday, October 21, 5-7pm

Where: Felicity R. “Bebe” Benoliel Gallery,

237 S 18th Street, Suite 3A

Philadelphia , PA 19103

Contact: Genevieve@cfeva.org

For more information about the CFEVA's Visual Artist Fellowship visit HERE

To View Mary's work on Artsy visit HERE

Click here to view Commons on Artsy

Mary Henderson is a visual artist living and working in Philadelphia. She teaches painting part-time at Tyler School of Art; she is also a member and former co-director of the Philadelphia site of the nonprofit network of artist-run spaces, Tiger Strikes Asteroid. She received an AB in fine arts from Amherst College, and an MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent solo show, Being Together, opened in September, 2022 at Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, GA. Her work has been shown throughout the United States at venues including the Delaware Contemporary Museum, the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, the Muskegon Museum of Art, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, the Woodmere Museum, Lyons Wier Gallery and Wilding Cran Gallery. She has been awarded residencies at Soaring Gardens, the Jentel Foundation and Hambidge Center (where she was the Nena Griffith Distinguished Fellow); she has also received grants and fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Joseph Robert Foundation, the Center for Emerging Artists, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She has been featured in publications including Harper's Magazine, L’Espresso (Italy), New American Paintings, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Art in America. Her work can be found in collections including the Rockefeller Foundation, the Muskegon Museum of Art and the West Collection

POST graphic design by Gaby Heit. Pictured: Paz Sandoval photographed by Annabel Kiley. Local Printing by Fireball.

#POSTPHL Continues this weekend!

Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST)

West of Broad: October 21 +22 | Studios open 12-6pm.

Each October, POST activities span twenty unique Philadelphia neighborhoods and highlight the creative workspaces of nearly 300 artists and community partners. Great for all ages, POST provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse of visual artists at work through an approachable, self-guided, and easy-to-navigate tour. Ancillary activities include featured exhibitions, demonstrations and workshops, artist talks, receptions, guided tours, and more! No other program in or around Philadelphia consistently brings such an intimate and diverse cultural experience to the community free of charge and across such a large geographic area. Visit our event website HERE.

Print Tour Directories AVAILABLE NOW - Click here for all participating locations.

POST 2023 is made possible by:

For a full list of participating POST artists, partners, tour map, and schedule of special events, please click here.

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